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  • The Evolution of Revolution: Part II of III: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Part I - Part III
    Imagine
    Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today...
    Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace...
    Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...
    You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the (…)

  • Environment: World On Alert As Over 15,000 Species Face Extinction
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sonny Inbaraj
    Bangkok
    Global biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and the prognosis given by one of the world’s leading conservation bodies, at the opening of a major environment conference here, is alarming.
    Over 15,000 animal and plant species face extinction, reveals the World Conservation Union or IUCN in its ’2004 Red List of Threatened Species’.
    One in three amphibians and almost half of all freshwater turtles are threatened, on top of the one in eight birds (…)

  • Coyotes Roam, Not Far from U.S. White House
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    November 08, 2004 - By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
    WASHINGTON − Coyotes, the rangy animals associated with the American West, have been spotted in the U.S. capital for the first time, sparking gossip in precincts where talk usually turns on politics.
    "On our way home from a party tonight, my son spotted a coyote trotting amongst the trees," one writer said in an e-mail group for one of Washington’s tonier sections.
    "One ran across Military (Road). No question, a healthy smallish (…)

  • Study predicts Arctic ice melt by 2100
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by WWF
    A new scientific study says the Arctic ice cover will disappear in summer by the end of this century unless carbon dioxide emissions are significantly reduced.
    The study, to be released next week, says the Arctic ice melt will cause sea levels to rise and could lead to the extinction of some species such as polar bears.
    "The melt has begun," said Jennifer Morgan, director of the Climate Change Campaign for the environmental organisation WWF, which published excerpts of the (…)

  • Kyoto Is Too Little to Fix Warming, Says U.N. Climate Chief
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alister Doyle
    OSLO, Norway - Although saved recently with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
    "My feeling is that we will probably need to do more than most people are talking about" to combat climate change, said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
    He welcomed ratification of the (…)

  • WWF Says Earth in Trouble
    28 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    GENEVA - Humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over- exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth’s ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.
    The biggest consumers of nonrenewable natural resources are the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Kuwait, Australia and Sweden, who leave the biggest "ecological footprint," the World Wildlife Fund said in its regular Living (…)